“There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are the ones who want to snuggle into settling. The ones who look as settled as old housedogs want to twist their way into flying. Necessarily, you must be defensive about being a settling sort of girl.” SettlingGirlsUnsettling Book:Kari Source: Kari
“Whatever love laws have to be broken, the first few seconds suffice. After that everything is a matter of time and incident.” LoveLove At First Sight Book:Kari Source: Kari
“On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once? My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze may ruffle her skirt, not a bird may perch atop the steeple. The only way out of a snow globe is by shattering the glass dome that is its sky.” WaitingSnowShatteringBlizzardGlassSnow Globes Book:Kari Source: Kari
“On a slightly unconnected note, I am sorry to report that babies, as a collective species, are largely oblivious to my charms.” CharmBabies Book:Kari Source: Kari
“The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.” AbuseTrainApathyEyesMumbaiCompartmentMumbai Local Book:Kari Source: Kari